A national tragedy, some expensive melted chocolate and a few good reads

I've heard how blogging is pretty addicting but apparently i'd make a bad alcoholic because we've already started slacking. But I think it was primarily because we had a really boring couple weeks. That changed Once the 2nd week of November rolled around. Our 1 Year Anniversary came and we went to OKC to celebrate. Went down last friday the 5th and stayed at Kelcis Aunt and Uncle Kims - both named kim - house. Then after a ridiculous long sleep we woke up and headed out for some shopping and then headed downtown OKC to check out the OKC Bombing memorial. It was beautifully designed. Its made to make you stop and think about how horrible the bombing was and it definitely gave us goosebumps. Then we went through the actual museum which turned out to be a pretty awesome way to spend 20 bucks. Neither of us knew a whole heck of a lot about the bombing and we learned alot in a few hours

After that we headed back to the Kims got spiffed up and headed to Bricktown. We had reservations at a fancy Ristorante known as Nonnas. It was delicious and while the prices werent the friendliest it was worth it to make it a special occasion. After that we strolled around bricktown checking out a few shops and the riverboats and then headed to reservation #2. It was at a fondue restaurant called The Melting Pot. We had a pretty awesome waiter who walked us through the Fondue dessert options and we had a great time. It was definitely new for us and while were not used to a 40 dollar desert it was still worth it.

After that we headed back to the Kims, slept in extra long again due to the time change, did a lil more shopping then headed out of town. But we detours 1 1/2 hours to Tulsa where we visited the Oklahoma Aquarium. Which turned out to be pretty much amazing. From petting the stingrays to the largest walk-through Bull Shark exhibit in the U.S. it was something awesome where you would least expect it. After a few hours there we headed across Tulsa in some of the slowest traffic we'd ever seen due to construction. Unfortunately for a car that hadn't been much further ahead of us, they must not have seen the fully stalled traffic and ran their F150 directly into the back of a stopped semi. Driving by it looked like the back of the Semi had flatted the truck all the way back to the rear seat. By the time we drove slowly past it numerous people were running around the vehicle. Later we would find out that the driver some how survived the wreck but was trapped in the vehicle for 2 hours. Unfortunately her passenger, another woman was killed and a 2 year old in the back seat is severely injured.

Once we got through the traffic we arrived at our final destination. The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. I had never been to a hard rock and unlike Kelci i'm not a repeat visitor of Sin City so i was pretty excited. Got set up with a players card and got down to some gambling. I had wanted to play craps but the only option was poker and blackjack so i headed to the slot machines. Well 2 hours later i was 70 dollars richer and we headed out of the horribly smoky Casino. After a long 3 hour drive home we were able to call the weekend a success!

Monday was Monday Night Football for the Steelers. So we headed to Applebees to watch the game. Where Cody and I got pretty much wasted off of only 3 pitchers of beer and watched the Steelers pull out yet another close win.

Tuesday I had a pretty bad headache when i woke up but a gallon of water and some ibuprofen fixed that for me. Tuesday after work I had a interview with our marketing dept for a new job that they've created. (which as of fri night I havent heard back on yet) It went i thought extremely well, but they had quite a few applicants, both internal and external so i just have to wait and see

Weds was a lazy day and Thursday, which we had off work due to veterans day, was even lazier, but its what Kelci and I needed.

Somewhere this week i was able to finish a couple of pretty decent books. The first one was Kitchen Confidential - by Anthony Bourdain. Its basically a memoir about coming up in the food industry working in 3 and 4 star restaurants in big cities al l over the world. its kind of portrayed as a tell all of all the horrible things going on behind the scenes at obscenely expensive restaurants. A friend of mine whom i used to work at applebees with lent it to me and while i could relate to some of the smaller things, there was very little nudity, freebasing, and all around shenanigans that are profiled in the book. But overall it was a pretty worthwhile read.

Another book i finished was A Fighters Heart - by Sam Sheridan, it was a borders bargain book find and was very interesting. Its about a Harvard graduate broseph that decides he wants to test himself in the world of fighting. So he found people to train him and found himself in a few fights. Alot of the book is about getting into a fighting state of mind and alot of what I'll take away from the book is basically about how fights are fought in the thousands of hours of training and how once your in the ring its just about already decided. I can use that in regards to my triathlon training.